Medicating Little Miss Evil Incarnate was definitely going to be my supervillain boyfriend’s job. “Don’t forget: put it in some cheese and she’ll gobble it right up.” “Here’s her puppy Prozac,” Zoe informed me, handing me a bottle.
I fought not to wince as she spat out half-chewed bits of Milk Bone all over my back seat. Vivi took the treat in her mouth and… Yep. “Now, be a good girl for your Auntie Roxanne.” Gloria leaned over to smile at the poodle, stuffing a dog biscuit through the bars. “We’ll help you get her into the car,” Gloria said.īy the time we had her loaded, Vivi was barking a canine demand to know why she was being so cruelly ill-treated. More proof I was probably actually dealing with some sort of fluffy monster. The upholstery of my poor Nissan was doomed. Vivi, meanwhile, was, I swear to God, literally glowering at me as if to say: “this is somehow your fault. “That’s a good girl,” my friend was cooing as she closed the gate. I wondered briefly whether Gloria had ever considered a life in supervillainy. The dog gave her a baleful look and sighed, but, wonder of wonders, actually did as she was told, walking into a large metal dog carrier and turning a misused glare on the room in general. It was a thirty minute drive back to the Evil Lair. I was more worried about what else might get out of the Dreaded Drama Dog. “Oh, no, it’s not your fault,” Gloria assured me. It was like my very own superpower except it sucked. One look at me and all her expensive obedience training when right out the window. The moment I walked through the door, the damned poodle instantly squatted and left a puddle on the floor.Īmazing. It was a good precaution, but sadly one that was completely vain. We just took her out to potty a few minutes ago, but we didn’t want to crate her up until you got here just in case.” “I’ll look forward to that,” I managed a reasonably sincere smile. “And I don’t care what you say, we are totally taking you out on the town when we get back.” “Well, it really means a lot to us,” Zoe took her turn to hug me without her girlfriend’s bruising exuberance. “What are friends for?” I said once I was able to breathe. “Thank you so much for doing this,” my friend threw her arms around me and did her best to crush me to death. I can’t think of a mastermind who precedes Moriarty, but there probably is one–because, let’s admit it, the Mastermind is an Archtype.Zoe and Gloria were waiting for me when I arrived at their house on Thursday evening. Both are versions of Lex Luthor, but Luthor himself is only a version of the Mastermind archtype. Both super villains are transformed into. Both deal with the comic struggles of super villains trying to succeed. MEGAMIND bears a thematic resemblance to Universal’s DESPICABLE ME. And the more you know about superhero comics, especially the Big Blue Cheese, the more entertained you will be. Dreamworks did a good job on not tipping their hand, not giving away all the good stuff before the film ever reached the theaters. It proved to be much wittier and more entertaining than I thought it would based on the teasers and ads that we all saw for months before it came out. I don’t want to tell you much about the movie. Logically Superman’s foes have to be super smart, because Superman already has all the physical abilities. Megamind is a comic take on the archtypal story of Superman and Lex Luthor. That has been my motto for a long time, and it could very well be a motto to live by for Megamind, the loveable new comic super villain.
I think they have the same weird disease that attacks the eyebrows.